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A just war

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Discuss this oxymoron in the comments below.

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  • Caminante34
    Wars are never just
  • Quadri Zafruddin
    a war for justification
  • Mel
    I would say stopping Hitler was a just war. No oxymoron.
  • Coyotes11
    This is not an oxymoron (unless you are a moron!)
  • spankymicgee
    wow,this makes sence=]
  • Bob Peterson
    Let me just say, this entire website is full of liberal crap.
  • Coyotes11
    you got that right
  • smowlboker
    While this is definitely crap, I wouldn't necessarily say it's liberal. Anti-war sentiments don't really fit in to the ideals of either party, it just so happens that a lot of liberals are also douchebag peace activists. (Not that peace is bad, just that peace activists are generally douchers)
  • spectator
    Wow we have some guileful warmongers here. This is not a definitional oxymoron but a rhetorical oxymoron, meaning the terms "just[ice]" and "war" are philosophically mutually exclusive - something this site seems to have little problem with ("bureaucratic efficiencies" has been certified here).
  • B.E.A.S.T.
    haha
  • ern
    The problem is that they *aren't* philosophically mutually exclusive. "Bureaucratic efficiencies" isn't an oxymoron either. A "rhetorical" oxymoron is basically something that isn't an oxymoron, but that some people *wish* was an oxymoron. But that doesn't change the reality that it still isn't one.
  • mrajmilne
    Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined
    These two terms (just and war), are not incongruous or contradictory
  • bobbyboyce
    How can this be an oxymoron, nothing is contradicted. It is a value judgement on war as is an unjust war.
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